Devonte Owens was 20 when he was shot and killed on December 25, 2019, at the Parkway Place Apartments on Farr Road in Columbus, Georgia. Multiple callers reported a shooting that night; emergency medical services pronounced Owens dead at 8:10 p.m. The incident occurred on a night normally reserved for celebration, and the community was left reeling.

The investigation into Owens’s death remains active but unsolved. Little else about the circumstances has been publicly released, and the case remains one of Columbus’s open homicides.

If anyone has information about what happened at Parkway Place Apartments that night or knew Devonte Owens, please come forward to assist the investigation.